SIGH
Don’t you hate it when you forget to bid on a pencil or pen, you have a weird technical problem that prevents you from bidding, or somehow your proxy buying service manages to fail in making a snipe bid?
Argh. I missed a user grade but nice shape KOKUYO Mistral PS-100 for $30 USD. I could slash my wrists, I’m so mad at myself!!
Oh bummer! I have a few mistrals that I cherish.
I feel you, last year I missed a pristine condition 80’s FC Da Vinci set for $35 USD.
I love the PS-102. Such a phenomenally fluid mechanism. And quiet. The bling of all that gold is a bit much. I wish they’d have gone with a steel clip and nose cone. But OTOH, it kind of looks like a rifle cartridge. The PS-100 is all steel and shares the same mechanism… and I have a NOS pristine one. Wanted a user grade. This one was a perfect match… and losing it… head smack
I also have the lesser ones, Like the PS-1 and PS-2. Plus a PS-13, which is really neat. But they all have chunky mechanisms in comparison to the PS-10x series.
The black and gold one on Mercari?
Hmm, it was in better shape than I realized the first time I looked at this auction 
You already have 500 Mistrals. 
@Mistrals: Does anybody know the model# of this just ended auction? https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/l1087675518?conversionType=service_page_search
(unfortunately my bid was a bit too low)
Holy smokes! Not sure I even would have noticed it—probably would have thought it was a fountain pen!
It’s difficult to read, but I would say PS-4 (also due to the 1500JPY price).
I always struggle with the stupid mercari website … Is it possible to see when the offer was published? I guess despite the absolutely high price the pxe155 went away quickly (due to the relatively low price & the rareness)?
Right hand column (on Mercari desktop version) indicates when an item was listed.
They never show up for sale.
If I saw ¥95,000 and had an open proxy, I’d have to consider it.
This is correct - it is a PS-4.
If it had still been available on 4/2, when I saw it, I would have grabbed it.
Yes, I only have 3 prices for pxe155. And the 95000 is the 2nd lowest… so, yes, this was a very rare opportunity 
I can’t stand Mercari’s site as well. It’s pretty remarkable how so many used item sites like this have such poor interfaces, at this late stage of the web commerce era.
